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12 years ago
Ok, been a while since my last journal.
Well first off, getting on with PAM didn't quite work out. Unfortunately there was a minor technicality kept me from getting on board with them. That actually got me kind of down because I was REALLY looking forward to going to trucking school!
Well it has been a few weeks since all that and I've been putting more applications here and there. And then I put one in for C.R. England last week. I finally got to talk with some of their representatives the past few days and... well... Trucking School starts on Aug. 12th!!
So now I am FINALLY on my way!! The school should be 3 weeks long and after that I get two months paid training. I'll have to work for the company for 9 months to a year to fulfill my obligation to them for paying my way through school.
After so many months the job offers full benefits and pays well, I can make up to $50 to $60k a year! It will still be a little while before I get to that point, but still It's a better paying job that I didn't have prior.
In other news I got to go to the Eagle Point Railroad in Tennessee this past Sunday. I went there to helps a friend build a storage shed for the locomotive he's building in 7.5" gauge. Off an on the past few weeks he's been talking to me about Live Steam, which I've had a strong interest in since about 2004. However I never thought I could afford such and extreme form of model railroading. Though he did show me some pretty surprising numbers when it comes to cost.
For $60 a year I can have access to the Eagle Point railroad and its club equipment! Where as I would putting down, sparingly, $200 for a single small scale locomotive! Hmmm... one engine in small scale... VS an entire railroad. Yeah... that's a real tough choice! So needless to say, I am venturing out into 7.5" gauge live steam, hence my recent submission with my little 2-4-0, "Emma".
Now no worries! I'm not scrapping my small scale modeling. I still full well intent to continue working in On20 and On30. I'm still quite attached to those scales/gauges, but I may be focusing more on 7.5" gauge Live Steam.
I did take some pictures while at Eagle Point and I'll get to posting them at some point. Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks for all your support!
Well first off, getting on with PAM didn't quite work out. Unfortunately there was a minor technicality kept me from getting on board with them. That actually got me kind of down because I was REALLY looking forward to going to trucking school!
Well it has been a few weeks since all that and I've been putting more applications here and there. And then I put one in for C.R. England last week. I finally got to talk with some of their representatives the past few days and... well... Trucking School starts on Aug. 12th!!
So now I am FINALLY on my way!! The school should be 3 weeks long and after that I get two months paid training. I'll have to work for the company for 9 months to a year to fulfill my obligation to them for paying my way through school.
After so many months the job offers full benefits and pays well, I can make up to $50 to $60k a year! It will still be a little while before I get to that point, but still It's a better paying job that I didn't have prior.
In other news I got to go to the Eagle Point Railroad in Tennessee this past Sunday. I went there to helps a friend build a storage shed for the locomotive he's building in 7.5" gauge. Off an on the past few weeks he's been talking to me about Live Steam, which I've had a strong interest in since about 2004. However I never thought I could afford such and extreme form of model railroading. Though he did show me some pretty surprising numbers when it comes to cost.
For $60 a year I can have access to the Eagle Point railroad and its club equipment! Where as I would putting down, sparingly, $200 for a single small scale locomotive! Hmmm... one engine in small scale... VS an entire railroad. Yeah... that's a real tough choice! So needless to say, I am venturing out into 7.5" gauge live steam, hence my recent submission with my little 2-4-0, "Emma".
Now no worries! I'm not scrapping my small scale modeling. I still full well intent to continue working in On20 and On30. I'm still quite attached to those scales/gauges, but I may be focusing more on 7.5" gauge Live Steam.
I did take some pictures while at Eagle Point and I'll get to posting them at some point. Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks for all your support!
And if interested you can see a line art concept for the locomotive I plan to build here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11197871/
Sorry for the late response by the way.
No worries, and good luck!